Size: 38" x 30"
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2002

Traveling along winding rural Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado, I found this barn. Its door was just barely attached by rusted hinges; windows had been boarded and covered with old chicken wire. Colorful fireweed grows wild among the abandoned chicken wire.

Size: 18" x 13"
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2001

This piece features a lion's head knocker that I found on a door in Venice, Italy.

Size: 29 1/2" h x 22" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2001

Clusters of the fast growing weed, barnyard grass hides an old water spigot that sits in front of Joe's Shed.

Size: 24" h x 20" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2001

This piece was inspired by a quote by Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885), an American Humorist. The letter in the mail slot is addressed to Mr. Shaw, who around 1865 lived in a modest Victorian home in Poughkeepsie, New York. During that time to post a letter a 3 cent Washington stamp would have been used. The Victorian door hardware was inspired an old Montgemery Ward & Co. catalogue.

Size: 27 1/2" h x 24 3/4" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2000

Along the rolling hills of Somerset, Kentucky barns and roadsides are naturally decorated by the glorious blue blossoms of chicory growing wild.

Size: 34" h x 22" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2000

The rusted screening of this old door added color to a shed found in Payne Hollow along the backroads of Tennessee.

Size: 25" h x 21 1/2" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date:2000

Brentwood Barn, discovered between two encroaching suburban communities near Nashville, Tennessee, is a hardy survivor, with natural trellises of morning glories softening the transition between city and country.

Size: 32" h x 22 1/2" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2000

Size: 31 1/2" h x 18" w
Materials: Canvas, cotton, acrylic paints
Construction: Machine thread painting, machine quilted
Date: 2000

The vivid colors that play against old weathered wood in Santa Fe inspired this piece from my series of Primitive Doors.